#And adjust accordingly

[bobson-dugnut]

I’ve decided i am going to do as much as I can, as well as I can, for as long as I can

[mouthtotheclouds]

The really annoying thing about dragon age (all of them) is how it's got cool lore and history and lots of fun plot shit and complex characters and then.... none of it is ever done justice or kept cogent. Not one single thing.

[launh]

Honestly! I think people get lost in the politics of gender but this actually comes down to something very simple:

If someone asks you not to call them something, you stop calling them that.

fun fact: "guy" "dude" "girl" are all gendered words. even if you use them in a gender neutral way that does not change the undeniably gendered connotations of these words. and trans people are allowed to not want to be misgendered. if a trans person asks you not to call them a word that is perhaps the most gendered a word can be, and your response is "but I use it in a gender neutral way!" i think you need to sit down for a long time and think about why you are so insensitive to other people. especially if you are also a trans person. why are we weaponizing gender neutrality to fuck with other people's dysphoria and act like they are the ones being weird !!!

[azidoazideazide]

Ah lads I think I “leopards ate my face”’d myself

[falling-star-cygnus]

y'all ik i haven't been here long, but this came to me and i have to share it -> i have no idea if someone else has already done this :{

Derek: Do you wanna know how I actually hurt my wrist? Stiles: ....yes Derek: I was hula-hooping. Derek: Peter and I attend a class for fitness and for fun. Stiles: oh my god- Derek, pulling out his phone: And I mastered all the moves. The pizza toss, the tornado, the scorpion, the... oopsie-doodle. Stiles: Why are you telling me this? Derek: 🙂 Derek: Because no one... will ever believe you. [He deletes the album] Stiles: No- no nono no-! Stiles: .....youu sick son of a bitch..

[muffinlance]

EDIT: The switchover from "Wani" to "Wanyi" has begun! Salvage should be switched; if anyone's re-reading, let me know if I missed any or accidentally borked any formatting during the change.

All crew names will be left the same, because they are Real People Names and I already had different personalities.

Thanks to everyone who helped me decide!

---Ye original post:---

Debating removing the various hat-tips to Embers in my fics due to attempting to re-read that story and finding it far less enamoring than when it was the second fic I'd ever read.

So anyways now soliciting potential new names for the Wani (Zuko's ship), Crewman Teruko, and Helmsman Kyo.

Update: Seems people (at least on this blog) associate those characters with my stories, not Embers. And the personalities are different, and they're legit real world names... So I'll likely leave those two alone.

Still tempted to change the Wani's name, though. My current top contender is Wanyi, which was @tuktukpodfics 's adorable change when they were podficcing Salvage, which I shall just quote here:

Wànyī (萬一): One in ten thousand, Perchance. I realize now that MuffinLance got the name Wani for Zuko’s ship from the author Vathara and it means "alligator" in another language. But when I was reading Salvage, I always imagined it was "wànyī," which literally means "one in ten thousand" and is used grammatically to mean "what if" or "just in case." I think a ship called "The Perchance" is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.

I think that is a lot cooler and more meaningful than "Alligator". <3

[motherstone]

@aloraaki3 oh this is the idea behind this piece! Symbolically, Emily and Trellis may be rather opposite on a lot of things, but where they do meet in the middle, is that they both have the capacity to do good — and destruction. It's two people, with potentially world ending powers — the fire and the flood (STORKS MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯🔥💪💪🔥 WHAT THE FUCK IS A BAD MOVIE 😎😎😎💯💯👏👏). A lil shallow and toon on the nose?? Yeah, but I love it! I love duality, I wish I knew how to depict it with more depth 😭

They're not actually fighting here, just in combat poses! And ngl, the elements were added last minute, you can tell bc I didn't factor that shit into the lighting 😂 too hard for me right now.

For context, this was the og idea, but I found it too difficult right now. I wanted something that can be done within two weeks, not worked over months (I have things to do).

Just for sharing, I always had this hc (blatantly ignoring canon) that they eventually evolved their own fighting styles outside of conventional stonekeeper types, which makes them unpredictable to opponents. That, and they also developed another separate style that incorporates the other person in it, meaning the style can't work without the other etc etc. It's basically their strengths doubled w none of the weakness (no I don't 100% know how fights work but I like the ideas!).

How would Emily fight?

Intimidation and overwhelm.

Thing is, her taking down pretty strong enemies spread out real fast to a lot of people, so opponents aren't gonna enter a fight with her expecting a weak lil girl but someone who is a fast learner and too strong for her skill level. That means there's no point in decepting that she's weak and unskilled, so she relies on an extremely powerful pre-emptive attack that would a.) hopefully end the fight before it even started and b.) intimidate and discourage other opponents from fighting her to begin with. She's very fast and very strong, but has poor defense so she's more prone to dodging and running/flying around the fight area. Name any stonekeeper attack, and she's probably already made a more efficient and powerful form of it. However, a huge disadvantage she has is that she exhausts her magical reserves way faster than an average stonekeeper because of said powerful attacks (her physical stamina is better though). This isn't such a problem if it's a duel between 1-2 people, 3 is pushing it because most fight don't last longer than a few minutes, but prolonged battles strategy-wise like with an army, her chances of winning plummets rapidly with every minute too long.

How would Trellis fight?

Deception and restraint.

Trellis got the opposite rep from Emily — he's been weak for years, so people don't expect that to change any time soon. Turns out, if you got out of your abusive environment and actually trained oneself in a way that doesn't hurt and discovering your own style instead of having an unsuitable one forced unto you helps you grow crazy fast (his stone power attacks are still weak however). That said, he still pretends he's the same guy, deceiving as much as possible like sticking with basic stonekeeper attacks, opting to deflect enemy attacks instead of blocking (it's also because he's hiding abilities he doesn't want opponents to know, and it's healing). He's best at attrition as a result of that restraint. However, he's secretly a support/tank, so he's the one who makes sure Emily lasts longer in a fight and covers her weaknesses when she can't. In turn, her being the more obvious threat in the field allows him to distance as he tries to think up a way to bat the enemy once Emily's pre-emptive attack fails and the fight lasts longer.

Fight!

Emily's pose AUGH this was agony to render. I'd have more to say but alas I once again stayed up late and the brain juice is gone. Adios.

[veryloovy]

Pointing this out because it somehow escaped me that organic Solver matter color is actually dependent on the host it manifests from. It's usually red with yellow eyes/accents if not directly connected to a host, but if it comes from a host it's a different color:

Worker V - white flesh with yellow accents/eyes (I suspect the yellow is from her being Solver-controlled and that her "natural" look would be white on white since white is her set color)

Uzi - dull purple flesh with purple accents/eyes

I do actually think being Solver-controlled changes accent/eye color to yellow. You actually see it happen to Uzi's tail head when she's being controlled.

Though possible error? The eyes on her wings stay purple during this.

[peliginspeaks]

Standing at a rainy cold bus stop and thinking about recipe books in the Neath. Battered old things from the Surface that perhaps sat in a cupboard for a good few years until their owners accepted that they couldn't afford the import on those ingredients now, and started crossing them out and replacing them with mushrooms, lichen powders, and the less dubious local meats. Glossy-covered ones titled in looping script, printed on something not quite unlike typical paper, trying to call on the tradition and elegance of a sunlit kitchen and not quite getting all the way there. Books that embrace the Neath entirely, with indexed guides to avoiding toxic ingredient lookalikes and descriptive flavour profiles entirely without comparison to Surface fare. I want to peek inside a PC's cupboards. let me see their recipes.

[m4gp13]

If I had a nickel for every time rick mixed up hypnos and morpheus I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's fucking embarrassing that it happened twice

[endless-ineffabilities]

Season finale this, season finale that. It's not Sunday/Monday yet so shush.

Anyway - the second bonus chapter for chemical override will be out at midnight! 🌶🌶🌶

Update! Have at it, my darlings.

[trappedinafantasy37]

Imagine being on the verge of death, your mind being ripped apart by the very gods. You beg and you pray and none of the gods you know and worship show up for you. They all leave you to die. Except one person. They come for you at your time of need and they save you when they didn't have to. In fact, they had more reason to kill you, but they risked their own life to save you anyway.

You travel around with them and watch all the things that they do. You question them, try to understand them, because they intrigue you. They are extraordinary. They are powerful. They are exquisite! They see the world in the same way you do, value the same things that you do. They are willing to stand before the very gods themselves and defy them, challenge them, and destroy them. And you accept them for everything that they are. You appreciate them for everything that they are. And you wouldn't want to change a single thing about them because you think they are marvelous just the way that they are! You love them with everything that you have, because they exist in the way that they do. You are loyal to them, devoted to them. You want to go where they go, do what they do, see what they see, because you can't imagine a life without them.

And then they turn around and look at you and say you are broken. That you need to be fixed. To be changed to be "better". You realize that they do not accept you in the same way you accept them. You realize that they didn't take a single moment to try to understand you. That the only parts of you that they like are what is convenient for them. And whatever they do not like, they want to scrape out of you and replace it with what they think would make you "better". They have spent this entire time, harshly judging you despite not spending a single second to get to know you. They want you to change, not for your sake, but to appease them. To them, you were only worth it because they thought they could change you, remold you into something that would make them feel better about being in your presence. Because your presence disturbs them. And when you make it clear that you will live as you are and you will not compromise for the approval of others, they throw you away and discard you. Calling you cruel, and evil, and a genocidal lunatic, when all you have ever done is just try to survive whatever situation you found yourself in.

Minthara accepts you and loves you for who you are and will NEVER ask you to change a single thing about yourself, and especially not for her sake. She wants you to just be... you. She likes you just the way that you are. She doesn't always agree with every single thing that you do, but by the gods, she will still love you anyway. No matter what choice you make, good or evil, she will still love you and accept you and go along with whatever you want to do.

Why won't you show her the same courtesy? Why do you only love companions when you think you can change them into what you want them to be? Why do you look at companions and only see their flaws and see it as something that immediately needs to be fixed into something you like? Why do you abandon companions when you realize that you can't change them into something you want? Why does she have to be the one to change? Are you willing to change for her?

Do you ever spend a single second asking yourself why Minthara is the way that she is? Cause if you did, you'd realize that she shouldn't be changed, and she can't. This isn't to say that Minthara can't change at all, she just can't and won't in the way that you want her to be. Minthara is very confident in herself and has been through many tribulations in her long life and has prevailed above them all, because she is the way that she is. She is proud, strong, loyal, and a survivor. And you are telling her that all of that is wrong.

[shitouttabuck]

eddie “clothes thief” diaz

[nikki-tine]

Hoo boy, Guess who! This guy was surprisingly hard to be faithful to the original style with so I went “fuck it” and did my own interpretation of the guy c: I love the Tickle monster, he’s so friend-shaped!

This is fanart for @eldelascosquillas-blog!

[volvolts]

i do kinda love the implication that the only reason why the grimwalkers keep betraying belos is because they have caleb's Good Noodle genes as opposed to just being decent normal people going "dude what the fuck is wrong with you" whenever they learn that belos wants to kill people

[heycupcake]

Comfy-vember, day 3: Special breakfast - spoon feeding - Forehead kiss

Hell yeah, getting comfy with some "they stayed smol" post-Mawdryn AU

The forehead kiss was inspired by @nephrosoupp 's masterpiece